Academic Expectation May 13, 2010 Flagship Partner Program San Francisco State University

1. Academic ExpectationMay 13, 2010Flagship Partner ProgramSan Francisco State University

2. Move up one notch ! First and foremost ….make your language proficiency progress evident to all of us by the end of the summer 2010.

4. Consider yourself an anthropologistin the field of China and find out what combinations are most effective and successful.Learn and apply these two 1. Chinese rules of speaking 2. Chinese norms of interaction

5. For example: what language strategies would you use to achieve your target goal?

6. What are the building blocks for your success?

8. Privilege, Responsibility and Honor • Writing a weekly BLOG (June 20-August 8) • While we love to see you enjoy your trip to China under the sponsorship of our federal grant in summer 2010, we expect each one of you take responsibility to fulfill our requirements to keep a reflective journal narratives every week and post your narratives (with photos or media elements whenever you can).

9. Flagship Weekly Bloghttp://transculturation.org/2010flagship

10. For the Flagship Summer 2010, you are required • (A) to follow all rules and requirements of Qingdao-Ohio State University and of San Francisco State University. You must spend time and carefully read through Ohio State Qingdao Program Handbook and rules about code of conducts stipulated by Office of International Studies. You are asked to find a way to keep a positive attitude toward matters or issues regardless of unforeseen difficulties or surprises in this summer study abroad in Qingdao.

11. (B) for the Flagship Program, we ask you to create and maintain a weekly blog filled with your reflective writing (minimum 400 characters each entry). Observe around what happen in your daily life and complete a reflective journal by midnight on Sunday each week. Following the following tasks and make your BLOG available for public viewing by the due dates

12. Create your own BLOG • 1- Create your own BLOG by due date: 6PM June 20, 2010 (Beijing, China time) • Before you take off to CHINA, or as soon as you arrive China, go online and establish an account on a free blog website (e.g.,  weebly.com; wordpress.com, etc.). • Make this a complete NEW site only for your experience in China this summer (2010). • Email Lin laoshi your own BLOG URL (to hdomizio@sfsu.edu) so we can link your URL under your name.

13. 2- What to write • Make this reflective writing as a sounding board to document your own discovery of matters about life and about what’s happening around you and your environment. • [Advance Writing Skills]: This Reflective Journal Writing (RJW) helps you improve your writing in Chinese character. You are expected to advance Chinese in all four skills. Writing takes time and effort and routine writing is an effective way to help oneself for progress.

14. [Regain Composure]: This Reflective Journal Writing (RJW) helps you to sort things out, to release anxiety, to step back and regain a balance of “chi” when issues and problems happen around you. There surely will be cultural shocks if you have not lived in China for long. There may be tension and conflicts among you and your encounters.

15. [Participant Observation of China]: This Reflective Journal Writing (RJW) may become rich resources available for yourself or others and be rendered into a research paper, a journal article, a domain-specific participant observatory inventory. Don’t trust your memory. You will forget many things but if you have this reflective journal going, bits and pieces will come back when you need them through this journal you invest this summer. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKnjaJ5WCo&feature=fvw • http://www.lulu.com

16. [Dream Big]: This RJW may become a base that help you to link up to a book publication, a consumer psychology market investigate, or to a business network connection, etc. • “Journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.千里之行始于足下” –

17. 千里之行始于足下 • “Journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.千里之行始于足下” • So, don’t you want to become an ambassador, a CEO of a cross-continental billionaire or to resume a global professional leadership in the business industry, such dream cannot truly become true overnight. It takes a lot of “working out” on conflicts and resolving on many unpleasant issues for one American to learn how to respect other’s opinions and “to remain cool about other society’s “norm of speaking and rules of interaction.” No matter how much percentage of you is considered to be American, being here in America you have been influenced by American ways of thinking and rules of interactions. In China, when you think you should have “right” to do something, please think twice where you are first!

18. See what happened in New York Times about China’s School Killings and Social Despair today 05132010 • http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/chinas-school-killings-and-social-despair/?hp • Details about the school attacks remain to be sorted out — whether these school attacks are isolated or copycat acts; whether they are triggered by mental illness or based on some malicious motives. But one thing is clear: these incidents are reflective of widespread and rapidly rising social anxieties, frustrations and tensions in the Chinese society today.

19. These acts put intense pressure on the fragile trust between the government and various social quarters. • At one level, such tensions are almost inevitable in a rapidly changing society. China today is experiencing social transformation at a scale and speed that its long history has rarely witnessed. • Large-scale and, in many cases, forced urbanization is carried out through migration, land seizure and residential relocation in both rural and urban areas. Alarming social inequality has become a naked fact that individuals experience in everyday life. In particular, housing prices have skyrocketed in large cities, increasing three or four times in as many years, creating a profound divide between those haves and those have-nots.

20. Strolling on the streets in Beijing or other large cities, you can glimpse those gated residential areas, with security guards, electronic cards and well-maintained walking paths and green areas within the high walls that separate the well-to-dos from the noise and crowds in the rest of city.

22. Word of wisdom Be reflective about your experience in China, there are more than one way to look at this world. • Laozi Chapter 68 said: [see Chinese in next page] One good at being a warrior is not warlike. One good at warfare avoids anger. One good at conquering the enemy does not join with him. One good at using men places himself below them. We refer to these as the virtue in not fighting and the power in using men. Such a one is called a companion worthy of Heaven, the ultimate attainment achieved for all time.

23. 老子道德经 • 善为士者不武 • 善战者不怒 • 善胜敌者不与 • 善用人者之下 • 是謂不争之德 • 是謂用人之力 • 是为配天古之极

24. Introduction and make friends Before you fly off to China, be sure to create a 10-slide Powerpoint to impress others about where you are from and who you are.

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